450 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [Cevopegia. 



lobes erect, 1 lin. long, spathulate-linear, obtuse, only slightly overtop- 

 ping the outer corona, glabrous. — K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 827, t. 40, fig. A-E, corona very inaccurate, and in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv., ii. 272, fig. 81, C. 



XVKozamb* Bist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston! 

 between 900 and 5400 ft., 3Ieyer, 196 (ex Engler). 



23. C. purpurascens, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 152. 

 Stem twining, slender, J-f lin. thick, glabrous. Leaves herbaceous ; 

 petiole 21-5 lin. long; blade f to 1| in. long, 4J-10 lin. broad, oblong, 

 ovate-oblong or rarely broadly elliptic, acute, mucronulate, truncate 

 or acute at the base, glabrous. Peduncles umbellately several-flowered, 

 glabrous. Sepals | lin. long, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. 

 Corolla 9^ lin. long ; tube inflated at the base; lobes about as long as 

 the tube, attenuate into linear tails from an ovate-triangular base, 

 incurved over the mouth of the tube in the form of a globe and con- 

 nate at their tips, ciliate. Outer corona J lin. long, cup-shaped, 

 10-toothed ; inner coronal-lobes linear-subspathulate three times as long 

 as the outer corona. 



ImO-wer Culnea. Angola : near Pungo Andongo, Mechoiv, 122. 



1 liave not seen this plant, which is stated to be allied to C. leucotoenia, K. 

 Schum., and C. ringens, A. Rich. 



24. C. fusiformis, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 278. Stem 

 twining, glabrous, moderately slender ; internodes 4-7 in. long. Leaves 

 (only 3 seen) petiolate ; petiole 6-8 lin. long; blade 1J-2J in. long, 

 |-1^ in. broad, ovate or elliptic-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, 

 apiculate, cuneately narrowed into the petiole at the base, glabrous, 

 minutely and sparsely ciliolate on the margins. Peduncles lateral, 1-lf 

 in. long, subumbellately G-10-flowered, glabrous ; floral axis ultimately 

 2-7 lin. long ; bracts minute, J-| lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 3-4 lin. 

 long, glabrous. Sepals 2 lin. long, elongate-ovate at the base, acuminate 

 into a complicate-subulate point. Corolla-tube rather abruptly curved 

 near the base and about \\ in. or rather more in length along the curve, 

 ovoid-inflated and about 2 lin. in diam. at the base, then narrowed and 

 again enlarged into a fusiform inflation about 3 lin. in diam, at the middle, 

 then dilated into a funnel-shaped mouth 4 lin. in diam., glabrous outside, 

 hairy within in the basal part ; lobes erect, 4-4J lin. long, connate at 

 the tips, broadly deltoid, strongly replicate, with the keels formed by the 

 folds straight, all meeting at the centre and terminating at the base in 

 nearly a right-angle, quite glabrous on both sides, not ciliate. Outer 

 coronal-lobes J lin. long, J lin. broad, erect, brcadly ovate-deltoid, 

 minutely bifid or emarginate at the apex, glabrous outside, clothed with 

 long retrorse hairs within ; inner coronal-lobes 1 J lin. long, much over- 

 topping the staminal-column, connivent-erect, flat, oblong-linear, nar- 

 rowed at the base and there dorsally connected with the outer corona, 

 covered with rather long hairs on the back. 



